In the 1940s and ‘50s, Tommy Glasco had a second-hand store on East Liberty Street.
Just inside the front door was a glass jar filled with used dentures and anyone who needed new choppers could just step inside and try the used false teeth on for size. Or maybe swap old dentures for new ones, or for something else in the Wooster store.
As long as Tommy was in business, the denture jar was on display.
Here are more interesting facts from past ‘Bits and Pieces’ columns.
For a period of time, Wooster had two proud entries in the Guiness Book of World Records. One was local celebrity Vernon Craig (“Komar the Hindu Fakir”) who on July 24, 1971 spent 25 hours, 20 minutes and 15 seconds lying on a bed of nails in the front window of the Wooster Chamber of Commerce offices on the square.
Way back at the beginning of March, I trudged across a gray paste of melting snow and spread a large swatch of heavy, black fabric overtop the foot high ryegrass I’d planted last fall in my garden.
The intention was to slowly snuff-out the cover crop over the course of a few weeks, then commence with the planting of my peas on St. Patrick’s Day as every good gardener in the area is inclined to do.
As I write, eight full weeks have passed since that initial “kickoff” event to the 2021 gardening season and I have yet to get my seeds in the ground. The shame is mine. I’ll own that. I work with and around folks who start taking measured steps toward the success of next season’s garden within a week after putting this season’s garden to sleep for the winter.
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But on the other hand: Hill knew Allen personally. Their now seventh-grade sons, both currently living in the Plain school system, played together on an Ohio Phenom Academy travel basketball team in 2017, and have played against each other since. And that house Allen leases on 41st Street was the only one purchased last year by the Housing Authority.
Some former and current Housing Authority employees said they believe Hill used his position to give Allen special treatment.
Last month, an anonymous letter was sent to at least some of the Housing Authority s five appointed board members advising them to dig deeper into circumstances surrounding that house, among other matters.